Moral clarity? What does moral clarity have to do with it? If bombing the shit out of two different other countries in response to having a much milder dose of the shit bombed out of your country is moral clarity, then I'm pleased to opt out of it.
Everyone's a patriot for their own little cause, when two causes intersect then you have a whole load of moral dilemma. So patriots proudly stand up, say, in the cockpit of a plane 22000 feet up, and hit a button, which is just so much more morally clear than flying another plane into a building.
Civil liberties died on S/11, welcome to the new facism, able to take down offending lines of thought and inquiry with a single denial of service.
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Moral clarity? What does moral clarity have to do with it? If bombing the shit out of two different other countries in response to having a much milder dose of the shit bombed out of your country is moral clarity, then I'm pleased to opt out of it. Everyone's a patriot for their own little cause, when two causes intersect then you have a whole load of moral dilemma. So patriots proudly stand up, say, in the cockpit of a plane 22000 feet up, and hit a button, which is just so much more morally clear than flying another plane into a building. Civil liberties died on S/11, welcome to the new facism, able to take down offending lines of thought and inquiry with a single denial of service.